{"id":5043,"date":"2011-12-14T23:05:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T04:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=5043"},"modified":"2011-12-14T23:05:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T04:05:50","slug":"those-arent-footprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/12\/those-arent-footprints.html","title":{"rendered":"Those Aren&#8217;t Footprints"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/iamgratefulhowareyou.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/butt-prints1-255x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"450\">One night I had a wondrous dream,<\/p>\n<p>One set of footprints there was seen,<\/p>\n<p>The footprints of my precious Lord,<\/p>\n<p>But mine were not along the shore.<\/p>\n<p>But then some strange prints appeared,<\/p>\n<p>And I asked the Lord, \u201cWhat have we here?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those prints are large and round and neat,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Lord, they are too big for feet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy child,\u201d He said in somber tones,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor miles I carried you along.<\/p>\n<p>I challenged you to walk in faith,<\/p>\n<p>But you refused and made me wait.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou disobeyed, you would not grow,<\/p>\n<p>The walk of faith, you would not know,<\/p>\n<p>So I got tired, I got fed up,<\/p>\n<p>And there I dropped you on your butt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause in life, there comes a time,<\/p>\n<p>When one must fight, and one must climb,<\/p>\n<p>When one must rise and take a stand,<\/p>\n<p>Or leave their butt prints in the sand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014 author unknown<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One night I had a wondrous dream, One set of footprints there was seen, The footprints of my precious Lord, But mine were not along the shore. 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